Specialists with lawsuits against the Ministry: They are leaving Kosovo, they must keep two jobs to pay for specialisation

Specialists from all clinics of the University Clinical Centre in Kosovo have expressed disappointment with the maintenance fees. Viewing these payments as not equal, and contrary to the labour Law, they are also warning charges against the Ministry of Health.

Special Council representative Urim Cerkini tells Kosovo that, along with their union organisations and meetings with Health Minister Rifat Latifi, except for promises, there is still no reflection on their problems.

Cerkini says their main concern is lower maintenance fees over the weekend, which are being paid as maintenance during working days, while continued demand of self-finance specialists remains their return to regular specialities.

  “Our concern as a special physician is the question of weekend stewards who from the Ministry of Health are paid the same as those on working days, and like those on weekends, which is a violation of the Labour Law, and we have consulted with the Government of the Kosovo Medical Office and if none of the forms of our organization will succeed then we are obliged to file charges against the Ministry of Health for the Law of Labour... The indictment will be exercised in one of the courts for sure in Pristina because since before the new year colleagues from the Special Council have had a meeting with Health Minister Rifat Latifi on the issue of the return of all self-financed specialists to the form of regularly paid specialists, which our colleagues have promised to be very soon realized in early January and has considered this a technical issue, but these days we don't have any movement on the part of the Government with all the protests and protests that we've had on the side of the government, and we've had the reflection of 120x, the Ceri> stressed.

Urim Cerkini, who is currently a specialist at the CKKUK Rheumatology Clinic, says that due to poor conditions many specialists are leaving Kosovo.

He for Kosovo Preress has stated that young doctors who are carrying out self-finance specialisation are becoming even more damaged with low maintenance fees.

  Let's say there's no salaries for self-finance specialists, but now we're damaged with the custody fee, so as soon as this case is fixed, the better it's going to be for the special workings as well as the work of KKUK clinics. When we realize that even a very large number of our colleagues are on their way. Only in the Reumatology Clinic, where I specialize in nine specialists, two have fled to Germany, as well as in the Pulmology Clinic, where I am now a resident even there, 10 specialists have left. When we add to that the obstacles young doctors face to their employment then this would be an alarming sign for MS”, he said.

Urim Cherkini, who is also a Family Medicine specialist at Ferizaj's Main Family Medicine Centre, says there is delays in subsidies given by the government to self-financed specialists.

He says that seeing no reaction from the Government and the Ministry of Health faced their troubles has also increased the resentment and desire of young doctors to leave Kosovo.

 “Subventions from time to time do not arise over time, which presents additional difficulties in the functioning of doctors as specialists at the same time that difficulties are also carried to their functioning as colleagues of experts in the respective clinics... Our expectations are not that 3-4 months, but that's no reason for the government's inaction when it's known for many other areas there are means of subsidies from the budget while doctors are not found, so it's very fair that doctors and their flight that has not stopped”, Cerkin stressed.

According to him, self - financing specialists are forced to hold on to two jobs with the aim of professional advancement, and this is especially difficult for them, he said.

  The “is very difficult because most of the colleagues are also family keepers at the same time carry two jobs like the case with me and many other colleagues and commitment to specialisation as secondary work, that is, it presents difficulties”, he stressed.

Advise fees for regular and self-financed specialists have begun to take place since January of this year.

At the end of last year, specialists from all clinics of the University Clinical Centre of Kosovo with financing from the Ministry of Health, but even those with self-finance have held several protests. Their main requirement has since been to return them from regular self-finance specialists and to pay custody, especially for the weekend.